Woodrow Wilson Presidential Quotations

A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.

America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.

There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.

There is no indispensable man.

Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.

A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has (been) deprived of (the Bible).

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. . . . We must strive for normalcy to reach stability.

America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles.

While we are fighting for freedom, we must see, among other things, that labor is free.

No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.

May it not suffice for me to say ... that of course like every other man of intelligence and education I do believe in organic evolution. It surprises me that at this late date such questions should be raised.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.